About Us:
Versana is an industry-backed fintech on a mission to make the syndicated loan market better. By digitally capturing agent banks’ reference data directly from its source on a real-time basis, Versana provides unprecedented transparency into loan level details and portfolio positions, bringing efficiency and velocity to the entire market. Through our platform, participants can rest assured they are accessing the loan market’s most credible source of deal information.
Role:
Versana is looking for a collaborative and accountable Data Architect to join our Platform Engineering team. The Platform Engineering team’s role is to work, create and maintain an architecture to support Versana’s real-time data platform and functionality. The Platform Engineering team enables Developers and QA Engineers to build a consistent, resilient, and scalable platform.
The Data Architect will be responsible for creating standards and managing data in transit and at rest. This results-driven individual will analyze and create tools, make recommendations, and implement solutions. This role will report to the Chief Technology Officer and play a key part in building Versana’s transformative syndicated loan market platform.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain + enhance data architecture framework to facilitate development
- Design data models and set standards for databases and data lake
- Visualize and design a scalable and resilient data management framework
- Creating and maintaining data pipelines and frameworks for data ingestion to the data lake
- Establish data quality standards to ensure data accuracy and compliance
- Define maintenance, persistence, and archival strategies
- Present to executive leadership on business value of recommendations
- Work with Product, Development, QA and Data Science teams
- Provide ongoing production support for the platform
Must Have:
- BS or BA in Computer Science or related field
- 5+ years building financial software
- 2+ years as a data architect
- Knowledge of streaming event platforms
- Knowledge of Data mining and partitioning techniques
- Experience with Kafka and Postgres
- Strong quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills
- Curiosity and willingness to learn new things
- Ability to process information quickly while adapting to changing priorities
- Entrepreneurial spirit and ability to partner with various internal teams
Nice to Have:
- Syndicated Loan knowledge
- Dremio experience or similar experience with other data lake tools and frameworks
- Distributed ledger and/or smart contract experience
Top Skills
What We Do
Versana is an industry-backed digital data and technology company on a mission to transform the syndicated loan and private credit markets. By digitally capturing agent banks’ data on a real-time basis, Versana provides unprecedented transparency into corporate loan level details and portfolio positions, bringing efficiency and velocity to the entire asset class. Through our centralized platform, participants can rest assured they are accessing the loan market’s most credible source of deal information. With the support of our investors, Versana is fast becoming the technology of choice to usher in the long-awaited modernization of the syndicated loan market. For more information, visit versana.io.